AFTER PRAYERS

Director: Simone MestroniCountry: Italy/IndiaLength: 61’Year: 2018

Routine violence and muezzins' calls for prayers shape the time-flow of daily life in Indian Kashmir. Almost 30 years have gone since the beginning of the armed struggle, and notwithstanding a widespread frustration, the controversial dream of Kashmir's independence, along with the nightmare of the conflict, is still preserved alive

Simone Mestroni

Simone Mestroni has developed visual storytelling skills along with his fieldwork research on ethnographic aspects of Kashmiri conflict. While completing his PhD in anthropology he has been working as video operator and as fixer for photographers. Simone's ethnographic book on Kashmir “Lines of Control” (Meltemi 2018) is presently used as textbook for anthropology courses in three Italian universities. In October 2017 his first documentary “After Prayers” has been awarded with the Wenner Gren foundation postdoctoral grant.

A film festival between two gulfs, facing the bay of Naples, the Vesuvius and the islands, where the air, the land, the water and the fire become one: to discover different visions of reality through documentaries from several horizons from all around the world.

Meetings, debates, concerts and artistic walks in echo with the landscape, passing from a foreign world to a familiar intimacy.